Red Sea Blue Bucket Salt

[Pontuskor]

Hi Guys I am new here,

I have setup my tank for over 3 months and just added my corals.
I am using the Red Sea Blue Bucket no dosing at all but feeding with A+B.

My levels are
Salinity 35
KH 8.9
Magnesium 1290
Calcium 550
Phosphate 0.1
Nitrate 25 (I think its 2.5ppm) it says 25 on the color chart it comes with.
All were tested using Salifert

A SPS coral just turned white and the polys died. (Which I removed from the tank)
A Duncan haven't opened up in 2 days.
All my other corals, 2 torch, hammer head, 2 zoas and 2 flowerpot are still opening up though.

I am wondering if my levels are off?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Sorry to hear of the loses, but none of those values are the cause of coral deaths.

 

[Sumbub]

Welcome to the forum! What size is the tank? Were all the corals you listed added at the same time?

 

[Pontuskor]

Sorry to hear of the loses, but none of those values are the cause of coral deaths.

does this mean my levels are fine, and I don't have to fix anything?

 

[Pontuskor]

Welcome to the forum! What size is the tank? Were all the corals you listed added at the same time?

it is a 12 by 12 cube. I added the hammer and duncan first around 2 weeks ago then added the SPS 2 days after I added the duncan and hammer. Everything was fine so around 4 days ago I added my 2 torch 2 zoas and 2 flowerpots.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

does this mean my levels are fine, and I don't have to fix anything?

Correct. Might be useful to know what the actual nitrate is, but neither 2.5 nor 25 ppm causes coral deaths.

 

[Pontuskor]

Correct. Might be useful to know what the actual nitrate is, but neither 2.5 nor 25 ppm causes coral deaths.

It is this one. I am still confused on how to read this cause on one side it says divide that number by 10 to get the ppm but then on another it says it is exactly what it reads.

 

[Sumbub]

Have you tried testing for ammonia? I'm curious if you adding coral at a fairly quick time could've caused a ammonia spike.

 

[Gtinnel]

It is this one. I am still confused on how to read this cause on one side it says divide that number by 10 to get the ppm but then on another it says it is exactly what it reads.

If you set the vial on the chart and look from the top down then the value on the chart is correct. If you are looking sideways through the vial then you divide the value on the chart by 10.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

What kind of lighting and flow? Can we see a tank pic?

 

[Pontuskor]

Have you tried testing for ammonia? I'm curious if you adding coral at a fairly quick time could've caused a ammonia spike.

thank you for your suggestion i brought an ammonia test kit today and found out it was super high i did a 30% water change straight away

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

thank you for your suggestion i brought an ammonia test kit today and found out it was super high i did a 30% water change straight away

What value?

 

[Pontuskor]

What value?

it was at 5 mg/l